Essentially, the Occupy Scranton people had dwindled down to a pair of shelters and a few people, and their permits had run out; when the cops came to finally break things down the Occupiers responded (after the obligatory claim that camping = free speech) by poking holes in the floors of said shelters and running away. Obviously, order was eventually restored. In fact, I am kind of impressed that the police handled things so well: if I had been on the scene then I probably would have concluded that the situation was really already too tense.

News report of the incident:

If that doesn’t load then… well. It was a scene where grown people – presumably ones with the franchise and everything – wrapped themselves in tents and ran away from the police trying to reclaim a public space. We’re all just going to have to deal with the fact that this is where things stand now in American public discourse.